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No Place Like Home? Host Advantage Vanished In Year Of Virus

January 6, 2021 Associated Press

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or the eight NFL teams guaranteed to host at least one game in the playoffs this month, the comfort of familiar surroundings sure can’t hurt their quest to reach the Super Bowl. Staying in the same time zone and avoiding airplanes and hotels ought to help players stay fresh. For the far-north teams, namely Green […]

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Week 17 scoring bonanza caps record-setting season

January 6, 2021 Associated Press

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The Week 17 scoring bonanza provided the perfect finish to a record-setting season on offense. Teams combined for 100 touchdowns in the final week of the season for the second-most in NFL history in a single week behind only the 104 scored in Week 14 of the 2013 season. That helped finish off the highest-scoring […]

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Zimmer, Vikes seek stability in brace for Kubiak retirement

January 5, 2021 Associated Press

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Much like in Mike Zimmer’s first year, the Minnesota Vikings have found themselves with a major improvement project on defense. Zimmer might have to start his eighth season by hiring yet another offensive coordinator, too, because Gary Kubiak is strongly considering retirement. “I love Gary Kubiak. He’s an unbelievable person, unbelievable coach, […]

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Cousins throws 3 TDs, Vikings end with 37-35 win over Lions

January 3, 2021 Associated Press

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DETROIT (AP) — Kirk Cousins danced in the end zone after running for a go-ahead touchdown early in the fourth quarter and the Minnesota Vikings went on to celebrate the end of a disappointing season with a 37-35 win over the lowly Detroit Lions on Sunday. “We were really close to being in the playoffs,” […]

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Eliminated Vikings seek to find purpose from final week

December 30, 2020 Associated Press

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings’ grind of a season will end this week with a failure to notch consecutive appearances in the playoffs that has continued for 11 years and counting. There are many lessons worth learning for the front office, coach Mike Zimmer and his staff and the players on a dismal defense […]

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Vikings banged-up defense sinks to new depths against Saints

December 25, 2020 Associated Press

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Minnesota Vikings’ depleted defense concluded its first series on the field by haplessly trying to chase down Alvin Kamara as the Saints running back raced away for a 40-yard touchdown. That was just the beginning of a historically bad day for a unit that has struggled much of this season. […]

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Saints look to clinch NFC South with victory over Vikings

December 23, 2020 Associated Press

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With the NFL opting not to play a Thursday game on Christmas Eve, it moved the prime-time showcase to late afternoon Friday and sent Minnesota down to New Orleans. The game doesn’t have the same headline-grabbing potential with the Saints (10-4) unlikely to secure the NFC’s only playoff bye, which Green Bay currently owns, and […]

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Vikings’ offense can’t make up for depleted defense

December 21, 2020 Associated Press

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EAGAN, Minn. (AP) — Running back Dalvin Cook and coach Mike Zimmer each bristled at questions regarding key offensive plays that went awry for the Vikings in Sunday’s 33-27 loss to Chicago. Cook was stopped on a third-and-1 run late in the fourth quarter. The Bears then stopped quarterback Kirk Cousins’ rollout on fourth down, […]

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Bears beat Vikings 33-27 to stay in stride in playoff race

December 20, 2020 Associated Press

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — David Montgomery burst through a big hole in the defense and carried most of Minnesota’s secondary with him across the goal line. That 14-yard touchdown run in the third quarter, his second score of the game, put Chicago ahead again by double digits. Every time the Vikings made a push, this once-flailing […]

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Bears visit Vikings, at playoff race pace for once

December 18, 2020 Associated Press

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — When the Minnesota Vikings finished their debut 2016 season at U.S. Bank Stadium, the game against the Chicago Bears between two eliminated teams was so perfunctory that oil pipeline protesters managed to rappel from the roof to unfurl a banner and become the stars of the show. In 2017, with the Bears […]

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